Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Now Elihu had waited to speak unto Job, because they were elder than he.
WEB
Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job because the others were older than he.
YLT
And Elihu hath waited earnestly beside Job with words, for they are older than he in days.
DBT
But Elihu had waited till Job had finished speaking, because they were older than he.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentJob — The canonical wisdom-literature interrogation of undeserved suffering. A prose frame enclosing three cycles of dialogue, a late Elihu interrupt, and a whirlwind theophany that does not answer the question — it relativizes it.
- Author
- Anonymous. Talmudic tradition names Moses (Bava Batra 14b); internal features (patriarchal setting, no Mosaic Law reference, Job sacrificing as family head, *qesitah* currency of Gen 33:19) suggest patriarchal-era composition or at least tradition-origin.
- Date
- Traditional: patriarchal period, c. 2000–1800 BC. Critical proposals scatter across pre-exilic to post-exilic. §7.9 surfaces; Pastor Marc's drawer takes the position.